A majority of private schools in the Capital have decided to go against the Delhi government order to scrap the management quota for nursery admissions, and will write to the Department of Education on Wednesday.

The school bodies have already drafted a letter.

“The logical and amicable thing is to approach the issuing authority first. We have prepared the letter and will be sending it to the department on Wednesday. The actual admission process will kick off from January 22,” said SK Bhattacharya, president of the action committee for unaided private schools.

On the other hand, some schools have started toeing the line and have updated their admission criteria.

Queens’ Valley School, Dwarka, which had earlier reserved 20 per cent seats under the management quota, has now merged the seats under general category.

BGS International School, Dwarka, has also scrapped the 30 per cent reservation under the management quota earmarked earlier.

Similarly, Mount Abu School, Rohini, which had earlier divided the general category seats as - 20 per cent sibling quota, 20 per cent management quota and 35 per cent open seats - has now removed all the criteria.

Scrapping the 32 per cent management quota, Sachdeva School has also updated its criteria in three of its branches in Pitampura, Rohini and Dwarka. PP International School, Pitampura, has also followed suit.

Indraprastha International School, Dwarka and Paschim Vihar, have also notified their new criteria after removing the management quota. However, they have reserved 20 per cent seats each under the quota for siblings, alumni and staff ward.

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In a far-reaching decision, the AAP government had last week scrapped management quota and all other reservations except under the EWS category in private schools for nursery admissions and warned that the institutions would be taken over by the education department if they fail to implement the order.

The action committee for unaided private schools, which has 400 reputed schools as members, has sought legal opinion to decide their next move. The committee had moved the Delhi High Court in 2014 after Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung had notified the scrapping of quota then.

A single bench had then granted autonomy to the schools to decide the quotas. The government had challenged the judgment seeking a stay before a division bench, but the matter is still pending. A hearing in the matter will come up on January 21.